Quotes about Worship

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.

It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to...the Word of God.

Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.

It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer — it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.

Worship is the submission of all of our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose--all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

In our worship we find for the most part what we expect to find.

Your religion is what you do with your solitude.

We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which God particularly requires. Love, Zeal, Gratitude, Joy, Hope, Trust, are each of them specified; and are not allowed to us as weaknesses, but enjoined on us as our bounden duty, and commended to us as our acceptable worship.

Father!—to God himself we cannot give a holier name.